Perspective and Other Optical Illusions (Wooden Books) - Hardcover

McNaughton, Phoebe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802716334 ISBN 13: 9780802716330

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, 2007

Synopsis

A thinking person's guide to reality.

The science of perspective has informed the representational and decorative arts since their inception, and its gradual perfection during the Renaissance was as important an event as any of the other mathematical and scientific developments of the time. Beginning with the evolution of visual perspective, Phoebe McNaughton reveals how and why illusions work in the first place. Questioning the idea that what we see is actually what is out there, she offers further optical illusions to suggest to readers that the world they perceive is in fact a complex product of their brain, constructed from the sensory data. Closing with various magical, theological, and atmospheric illusions and a further philosophical discussion of the nature of reality, Perspective will appeal widely to artists, designers, architects, and anyone interested in the visual or graphic arts.

About this title

About the Author:

Phoebe McNaughton is an industrial graphic designer and a painter. She lives in England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0802716334
• ISBN 13: 9780802716330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64